Introducing Smart Trade Networks’ Diversified Global Portfolio

There are over 30 projects in the first cohort covering areas such as carbon mitigation, food security, decentralised finance, property fractionalisation and ICT to name a few.

Smart Trade Networks is pleased to be supporting a diverse range of projects across the globe, which have been curated through the work of the Data Integrity in Supply Chains Association Inc. (DISCA). DISCA is our global community partner dedicated to empowering and rewarding communities, organisations and people that participate in and contribute to supply chain transformations that are good for people, good for communities and good for the planet.

The first cohort of projects that are coming on stream are an exciting mix of industries and geographies. They address the full gamut of human and social needs, and thus present a sustainable range of activities with strong value growth potential.

We have grouped projects, though there are strong cross-sector overlaps and opportunities for leveraged benefits via integration. The main groupings are:

• Carbon Mitigation
• Food security
• Wine and spirits
• Advanced materials
• Decentralised finance
• Property fractionalisation
• Media, entertainment and arts
• Data and communications technologies; and
• Education and research.

Investment Opportunities

Each project has varying investment opportunities, and interested parties can request additional information by emailing: admin@smarttradenetworks.com

Joining the Ecosystem

The ecosystem is continually expanding with participating enterprises and projects. Anyone interested in growing their business or creating new business opportunities utilising blockchain technologies can do so by contacting us at admin@smarttradenetworks.com. One of our Regional Hub team members will be in touch to discuss your project requirements.

Carbon Mitigation

Economies globally are striving towards achieving significant carbon reductions over the next 3 to 4 decades. Effective and trustworthy credentialing of decarbonisation or carbon offset impacts and claims will be central to verifying performance against targets. Green Finance will be anchored by independent verification and validation. STN is working with leaders and innovators in various areas that can meaningfully impact carbon mitigation. Projects include:

1. Carbon abatement in livestock production systems. This project emanates from decades’ of industry know-how and practical experience in the Australian beef industry, and is also expanding to address opportunities in New Zealand, South America and South Africa.
2. Green energy credence claims. We have two projects globally addressing issues related to tracking and credentialing claims made about the energy inputs of production systems touching on hydrogen, metals and significant industry products like ammonia.
3. Starch-based high-tech packaging technologies, with proven high-impact benefits in terms of carbon capture when returned to the earth. Ongoing laboratory testing and production refinement will see further improvements in impact ranges, with global applications.
4. Activated carbon production utilising unique and patented manufacturing technologies. These systems have been operational for a number of years, and are gearing up for diversified global expansion on the back of robust credence claims.

“CO2 knows no borders” by Liz | populational is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

Food Security

Climate change is impacting food security globally. Coupled with risks associated with under-supply (often resulting from global misallocation), STN-related projected are also tackling opportunities to grow value through fraud mitigation in supply chains, provenance brand value expansion and new supply chain models that reduce transaction overheads, reduce rent-seeking and grow value for players along the supply chain. Projects include:

1. BeefLedger. This initiative has focused to date on the Australian red meat supply chain, with particular consideration given to exporting premium grade products to China. The project also has domestic applications, and is in discussions with export channels into Japan, Vietnam and Malaysia.
2. BeefLedger South Africa. This initiative leverages the technological foundations of BeefLedger to customise and deploy systems suitable for the South African market. The South Africa regional team has identified a significant gap in domestic Livestock Inventory Management Systems through the use of digital technologies. The project fills the gap and does so cost-effectively. Future expansion to support LITS digitalisation in neighbouring countries has also been identified together with opportunities to develop credentialed supply chains to South East Asia and China.
3. BeefLedger South America. This initiative leverages the technological foundations of BeefLedger to customise and deploy systems suitable for the South American market, focusing on Argentina and Paraguay. The South America regional team has identified a significant gap in domestic Livestock Inventory Management Systems through the use of digital technologies. The project fills the gap and does so cost-effectively. Future expansion to support LITS digitalisation in neighbouring countries has also been identified together with opportunities to develop credentialed supply chains to South East Asia and China. We work with industry leaders like the Argentina Hereford Breeders’ Association.
4. LambLedger South Africa. Credentialed lamb production systems anchor the economic vitality of provenance-rich regions like Karoo. LambLedger is developing prototypes to enable the Karoo producer network to consolidate its leadership position in provenance accreditation and pave a pathway to digitalisation of existing systems to create new value and reduce costs.
5. TunaLedger. This project is being developed with key stakeholders in the Indian Ocean YellowFin Tuna Fishery, revolving around the infrastructure and resources of the Seychelles. Critical resource management challenges have been identified to realise long-run sustainability, and effective multi-stakeholder tracking on blockchain is vital to delivering transparency to drive improved supply chain function.

Wine and Spirits

Wine fraud is a big problem, especially for highly sought after products from all over the world. The markets are also seeing the emergence of artisan production systems and boutique brands, focusing on strong narrative-based brand value propositions. The STN ecosystem is working with a number of projects focused on delivering wine and spirits authentication for both established large scale producers as well as for artisan producers and brand owners. Projects include:

1. WineLedger South Africa. The WineLedger SA project is being curated by South Africa Hub, DataLedger. The WineLedger SA project is currently delivering a prototype for an established wine producer, customising the tools of the STN infrastructure.
2. WineLedger Australia. The WineLedger Australia project is being curated by local Australian partners. The focus is on creating digitally rich customer experiences that support new business models (direct B2C) and unique value propositions for boutique winemakers focused on building strong, loyal customer ecosystems. Tackling product counterfeiting through transparent credentialing is part and parcel of this initiative.
3. Paradise Distillers. Paradise Distillers is an artisan distiller of fine spirits, launching in 2020. Paradise Distillers works directly with STN to track its products on the blockchain.

“Agriculture” by thegreenpages is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Advanced Materials

Breakthroughs in material sciences can contribute significantly to better environmental outcomes in areas such as packaging and pollution mitigation. The STN ecosystem is pleased to be working with two projects that have active capabilities and scientifically validated advanced materials and products, which can contribute to these outcomes. The projects are:

1. Starch-based high-tech packaging technologies, with proven high-impact benefits in terms of carbon capture when returned to the earth. Ongoing laboratory testing and production refinement will see further improvements in impact ranges, with global applications.
2. Activated carbon production utilising unique and patented manufacturing technologies. These systems have been operational for a number of years, and are gearing up for diversified global expansion on the back of robust credence claims.

“Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Carlo Pantano shapes glass at his glass blowing studio in the Hosler Building.” by pennstatenews is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Decentralised Finance

Intermediated financial solutions were necessary when trusted third parties were needed. Satoshi Nakamoto provided the world with a means to migrate away from this structure, when peer-to-peer transactions could be delivered security and with integrity. The STN ecosystem is already working with a number of projects that are designing and developing P2P systems, utilising blockchain technologies. Projects include:

1. STN5. The STN5 is an industry leading asset-backed registered security. The STN5 project is mainly focused around opportunities in regenerative food systems and allied technologies. The STN5 is available on Uniswap.
2. SME Finance. The SME Finance project is focused on enabling P2P finance to small and medium sized business owners.
3. CRC Partners. The CRC Partners team have designed an integrated deal flow management system that aligns with the requirements of the Australian regulated mainstream finance systems landscape. The team is focused on curating and matching deal flow programs with strong ESG elements, and enabling projects to source finance through compliant mechanisms.

Property Fractionalisation

Property is recognised as a solid, stable asset class. However, traditionally, accessing this class of assets in a diversified portfolio sense in particular faces large transaction cost barriers for many people. The ‘lumpy’ illiquid nature of property also makes it challenging for properly functioning markets to form for things like retirement incomes drawn off property equity, and rent-to-buy schemes. Teams working within the STN ecosystem are tackling these problems, with projects including:

1. UBB01. This is the first of the Unbanking the Banked series. This project fractionalises residential property to enable the replacement of traditional bank mortgage finance with community equity finance.
2. NEN. This is a community-title multi-dwelling community project, aimed at delivering affordable housing in an ecologically focused residential setting. Community contributions are tracked via a project token.
3. Global Travellers Club. This project is working to fractionalise accommodation assets across the world, enabling a membership privileges opportunity to both own equity in the assets themselves, and also access use rights and privileges as well. The project is underpinned by a portfolio of seven apartments located on the Gold Coast of Australia.

“The Gold Coast” by Lenny K Photography is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Media, Entertainment & Arts

Human health is more than just food in the stomach. It’s also about intellectual and emotional sustenance and enrichment. That’s why the STN ecosystem is seeing the emergence of projects within the broad media, entertainment and arts space. Projects include:

1. Self Helpless. An Australian film project, with a suite of projects in the pipeline of this emerging production house. Shorts available soon.
2. Artlink Labs. A website-agnostic platform allowing creatives and intellectual property owners to collaborate and monetise their art.
3. Indigenous Art. The STN team is working on a number of prototypes with different artists and art communities. Credentialed products and preservation of provenance value are critical to indiegnous communities for whom ‘art is the economy’ in many cases.
4. Consoom. This project is designed to enable communities of media consumers to reward journalists on the basis of content quality.
5. Art provenance (Japan). The STN team is working with collaborators in Japan to scope a cross-national art exhibition transport and logistics project. This initiative will lay the groundwork for the development of an auctions market for artworks in Japan.

“Indigenous art mural — Charles Darwin University, Palmerston Campus, Northern Territory, Australia.” by Geoff Whalan is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Data & Communications Technologies

Digital inclusion must open up opportunities for accessing digital infrastructure and participating in the economic systems of data collection and distribution. Decentralised technologies open up new possibilities for community-driven models of data collection and infrastructure delivery. Projects operating in this arena within the STN ecosystem include:

1. Elemental Care — Decentralised Ecosystem Data Collection and Value. This project leverages expertise in environmental IOT (with a background in water quality analytics) to design a new decentralised model of data collection, distribution and consumption. Rather than be dependent on centralised entities deploying IOT sensors and owning the data (and controlling the information and benefits), this project turns the systems on their heads with incentivised mechanisms that support and enable anyone, anywhere to become a Data Farmer.
2. Community Telecommunications. This project has been designed by telecommunications engineers in Australia with over 30 years of international experience in engineering cost-effective distributed telecommunications networks. We harness this know-how to design low-cost, community owned infrastructure that provides communications infrastructure as a core service. Users benefit from accessing high performance low cost services.
3. STN DEXNODES. Decentralisation of information systems is about many things, including accessibility, information symmetry (and with that, evening out the power imbalances in supply chains) and system integrity and resilience. The STN team are achieving this by deploying Archive Nodes to Raspberry Pi’s to enable access to DISCA members (conditions apply), and are working to push out Archive Node capabilities to our STN SmartPhones. The SmartPhones project is also focused on Privacy Preserving design features from the Operating System up.

“Data centre” by pallotron is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Education and Research

Capacity building and enabling research as a public good to be funded is one of our passions at STN. We are reinventing capacity building and public goods R&D through a number of initiatives including:

1. Casugol partnership. This partnership is with Singapore-based technical education and certificates service provider Casugol. Casugol has a strong presence across South East Asia, and the partnership sees STN become Casugol’s global exclusive blockchain content creation and delivery partner. The partnership will lay the foundations for the progressive establishment of STN Academies across the world.
2. Patents as Public Goods. The R&D team is working through the design of a tokenised fractionalisation protocol to enable patents to be funded and registered to distributed networks of rights holders.
3. Tokenised R&D. Tokenisation of R&D aims to properly track research work and effort, and link it ultimately to the patents as a public goods initiative. The tokenisation of research is all about enabling post hoc valorisation of research effort.

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About Smart Trade Networks

Smart Trade Networks is a general purpose blockchain technology-enabled supply chain asset registration, tracking and trading ecosystem.

Smart Trade Networks undertakes R&D in cross-border supply chain and trade systems in collaboration with researchers at Queensland University of Technology and the Future Food Systems Cooperative Research Centre, in Australia.

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